Toy or game



H. MARSHALL.

TOY 0R GAME.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 30.1918.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

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' H. P. MARSHALL.

TOY 0R GAME.

APPLICATION FILED um. a0. 1918.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919,

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TOY 0a GAME. I

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30. 1918.

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INVENTOR,

ATTORNEY.

WITNEvBS HARRY r. MARSHALL/0,1 GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN'OR, EYmRcr AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 0E ONE-THIRD TO HOWARD n. FREEMAN, 0E NEWARK,NEW JERSEY, AND ONE-THIRD To cnARLEs J. EARR, 0E BAYONNE, NEW JE SEY.

TOY 'oR AME.

Application filed January so, 1918. Serial No. 214,445.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HARRY P. MARSHALL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Glen Ridge, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys or Games, ofwhichthefollowing is a specification. 7

The objects of this invention are to provide an amusing and instructivetoy or game which shall attract because of its novelty; to this end toprovide a plurality of pieces of different animals adapted to fittogether, and form a single animal of composite structure; to providesuch pieces or parts of animals having corresponding surfaces forfitting them together, all said surfacesof the same kind being ofsubstantially the same contour and size; to provide means on saidsurfaces at a distance from the edges thereof for holding them together,whereby said holding means are concealed when the parts are assembled;to secure a simple construction by which the parts can be readily puttogether and taken apart, and to obtain other advantages and results asmay be they can be exchanged for an d rawin and brought out in thefollowing description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals ofreference indicate the same parts throughout the several views, Figures1 and 2 illustrate two animals produced by my toy or ame; being agiraffe and a rhinoceros with t e heads exchanged;

Fig. 3 illustrates a more composite animal its body being one-halfgirafl'e and the other half rhinoceros and havlng apigs head and donkeyslegs;

Fig. 4 illustrates a rooster fitted with an elephants head, and

Figs. 5, 6 and-7 are detail views illustratin how the various parts maybe connected.

11 carrying out my invention, the bodies of mucus animals areconventlonahzed so that when dissected the surfaces of separation willall be similar and thus parts can be put together withoutregard towhether or not they are ,all parts of thesame animal or not. Forexample, as shown in. Figs. 1 and 2 the heads of two animals mayterchangeable, the surfaces upon which they are cut-ofi', represented byreference nu-- meral 1 for the giraffe and referencenumeral 2 for therhinoceros be1ng-s1m1lar,

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be inboth in contour and area so that eitherheadwill fit upon eitherbody. Likewise the legs of both animals may be detachable as at 3 forthe giraffe and 4 for the rhinoceros, all. said surfaces being of thesame" contour and area, so that the legs may-be interchanged as desired.Furthermore, the body may-be divided into parts, as I have illustratedby PatentedNov. 25, 1919.v

showing it split vertically longitudinally at 5,-so thatas in Fig. 3,one-half of the girafl'e body may be put with one-half of the rhinocerosbody, andthus the objects of my in the scope of my invention to carrythesubdivision of the animals to any extent de-' sired. This may easily .bedone so far 'asv it is possible to conventionalize animals so that thesurfaces of separation are Of'thG same contour and area or substantiallythe same, and it wilLbe appreciated that the further the subdivision iscarried the more ludicrous theefl'ects which can be produced.

In Fig. 4L I have illustrated a biped whose two legs and head areremovable so that of the other heads or legs shown in the obviously bysupplyin two sets '0 biped legs they could. be app 'ed to a quadrupedy Iif desired.

It will be understood that whatever the.

animal the contour and area of the surface upon which the head is cutoff is always substantially the same and similarly the contour and areaof the surface upon which the legs are cut ofl and upon which the bodyis divided, so that in Figs. 3 to 6 the neck divisions 8, the legdivisions 9 and the body divisions 10 are all the same as the.-corresponding divisions in Figs. 1 and 2. 3 V .B coloring the parts ofthe animals, as mi suggest itself to those artistically ski led in theart, the objects of'my invention may be emphasized and still furtherwhether the parts be colored naturally or fancifully.

The various; parts into which the animals are divided by my inventionmaybe temporarily connected by any suitable means on the connectingsurfaces which is located at "illustrative of such means, I have shownto be-fitted together and adapted to-entercorresponding sockets 7 in theother sur pins 6 projecting from-one of two surfaces changes may be madein manufacturing my prising a plurality of dissimilar parts oftoy orgame, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, andI do not wish to'be understood as limiting myself except as required bythe Y following claims when construed in the light of the prior art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 1s:

1.v The hereindescribed toy or game, comanimals having correspondingsurfaces adapted'to be fitted together toform a com plete animal, allsaid surfaces of-the same kind being of substantially the same contourand size, and means on said-surfaces at a distance from the edgesthereof for holding the .parts together, whereby said holding animal,all of sai being of substantially the same contour and means areconcealed when the parts are connected.

2. The hereindescribed toy or game, comprising a plurality of dissimilarparts of animals having corresponding flat surfaces adapted to fittogether to form a complete animal, all said surfaces'of the same kindbeing of substantially the same contour and size, and means on said flatsurfaces at a distance from the edges thereof for holding the partstogether, whereby said holding means are, concealed when the parts areconnected.

3. The hereindescribed toy or game, comprising a plurality of dissimilarparts of animals having corresponding surfaces adapted to fit to etherto form a complete 5 surfaces of the same kind size and each pair ofcorresponding surfaces being provided one with a pro e ct1on and theother with asocket adapted to releasably' hold said projection, saidprojection and socket being spaced from the edges of the surfaces onwhich the-y are placed, whereby they are concealed when the parts areconnected.

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